The Irish standard., 1887-09-03
mss FRANCES MORRIS.
The New Orleans Belle Who Il to Marry
Thur1oW Weed's Grandaon.

The New Orleans Belle Who IL to Marry
Thur1ow Weeds Grandson.
According to New York letter pub
ished in the Indianapolis Ne,os, one of the
swellest weddings of next fall will be the
elimination of a most romantic story. The
parties to the contract are Thurlow Weed
Barnes, grandson of the late Thurlow
Weed, and Miss Frances Isabelle Norris
daughter Of John A. Morris, the Louisiana
lottery king, whose fortune is estimated
at from SO, 900, 600 to $15,000,000. Miss
Morris is his only child. She is worth
$500, 600 in her own right, and on her wed.
ding day she will receive $1,000. 600 more
from her indulgent father. The ceremony
will take place at the family mansion at
Throgg's Neck, Westchester County.
Thousands of invitations will be sent out
70 all sections of the United States-to
New Orleans, where Mr.. Morris married :,
to Chicago and San Francisco and to Eu-
rope, where the bride-elect went to school
The Morrises, 1t is said, intend to make
the wedding an epithalamium in every
sense of the word-a general rejoicing over
the recovery of their daughter, VINO had
been quite ill for several years. The mag
nificent residence will be literally filled
with the choicest flowers the world can
produce, and the days following the wed
ding will be a series of fetes. The home
stead is surrounded by seventy acres Of
land, beautifully laid out and dotted here
and there with artificial bowers and
parterres Of rich green. Here the beauti-
full daughter will be married, surrounded
by her friends and kindred. tits her wish
that every one she ever knew should re.
ceive an invitation Her life for the past
few years has been one Of pain, and all
that money could do was done to restore
her to health again. Miss Morris was
born twenty-four years ago in New Or
cans. She has black hair and eyes, reg
ular features and fair complexion. Her
life began among the picturesque scenes
iruidical oaks, festooned with grey moss,
the fragrant magnolia trees and the
shrinking mimosa. Her beauty was more
.adiant and sparkling than that of the
Ianguid, dreamy daughters of the French
Her father went to New Orleans over a
generation ago and engaged in business.
He married Miss Cora Hennen, of that
city, and prospered. What he is really
worth now is variously estimated from
go, ,OOO, 900 to s15, ,O0), 900. He spent his win
ters in New York and travelled with his
family in Europe until he purchased his
home in Westchester County.
Miss Morris grew up healthy and ap
parently strong. When she was seven
teen years old she was sent to Europe tc
school, where she remained four years.
She speaks French and German fuently,
and before her illness was accounted a
great pianist. She studied awhile under
Liszt. Mr.. Barnes resides in Albany. He
edited the memoirs of his grandfather.
He is widower, about thirty-four years
old, is six feet four inches high. rather
heavy set and has clean-shaven, solemn
looking face. 1t is said that he is now
member of the firm of Messrs. Houghton,
Mifain & Co., publishers, Boston. Miss
Morris is at Bar Harbor with her parents
and Mr.. Barnes. Mr.. Morris is going to
have fine summer residence erected
there to present to his daughter as wed.
ding gift in addition to the 81, 600, 600 above
mentioned.